Alexander Crummell

Download or read book Alexander Crummell written by Wilson Jeremiah Moses and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on much new information, this biography examines the life and times of one of the most prominent African-American intellectuals of the nineteenth century. Crummell, educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, lived for almost twenty years in the Republic of Liberia as an Episcopal missionary, then accepted a pastorate in Washington, D.C., and founded the American Negro Academy, influencing W.E.B. Du Bois and future progenitors of the Garvey movement. A pivotal nineteenth-century thinker, Crummell is essential to any understanding of twentieth-century black nationalism.